USC Green Card Petitioners' Committee

[BOS_LHR 829]

I don't understand Reddit! Anyone here familiar with it?

I'm a fairly regular reddit user, and I think it's unlikely that the reddit community would take up our cause. I'm not saying no one can or should try, but I think it's wise not to prepare for a warm embrace from them. The message would have to be changed for that audience. Edited October 21, 2013 by BOS_LHR

[londonwalker 0]

Good work please keep it up, we can not wait forever, I have been waiting for my NOA2 for 7-months now. please let me know what to do to help, I can't wait to be with my spouse...

[thedude6752000 360]

I am about to file my I-130 and I worked for Obama's campaign as a field organizer in Florida (in a really redneck district where people threatened to kill me, too). I would be more than willing to make a video, and call out the administration for betraying me.

Edited October 21, 2013 by thedude6752000

[Blueberry Pancake 311]

I'm a fairly regular reddit user, and I think it's unlikely that the reddit community would take up our cause. I'm not saying no one can or should try, but I think it's wise not to prepare for a warm embrace from them. The message would have to be changed for that audience.

And how would you describe Reddit's audience?

Seriously, is there really so little empathy out there for people who are following the law to the t?

I am about to file my I-130 and I worked for Obama's campaign as a field organizer in Florida (in a really redneck district where people threatened to kill me, too). I would be more than willing to make a video, and call out the administration for betraying me.

Wow.

[Ana&Sean 5]

hey i am in for the video too! and i think its smarter if we read the whole thing and the video programer whatever pick and chose whose lines to put my child is 5 years old learning 2 languages at the same time i dont think shell say anything of the paper but i can get her to say that she misses her dad

[BOS_LHR 829]

And how would you describe Reddit's audience?

Seriously, is there really so little empathy out there for people who are following the law to the t?

There are a ton of good people on there, but soap boxing just won't work. There are too many trolls. Reddit is in large part a platform for sharing interests, funny internet content, etc. Empathy exists and acts of kindness happen but not so much mass political movements. Periodically I do keyword searches on reddit to see if people are discussing things relevant to us (CR-1, I-130, visa, immigration, etc.). There is an r/immigration but it has fewer than 1,000 subscribers. Capturing this audience would need more than a single post; it would take creating a dedicated user account, regularly reading everything on that sub, commenting, and referring to our issue in relevant places. Like this post, for instance: http://www.reddit.com/r/immigration/comments/1oo1ki/what_part_of_legal_immigration_dont_you/. If you read the comments to that post, though, you'll see the kind of attitude we'd be up against with redditors.

You'd probably get a more sympathetic audience on r/longdistance, but those individuals are often teenagers and college students in LDRs, not married people going through immigration processes.

R/politics has the broadest audience (most subscribers) of any of the subs I know would be applicable to us, BUT any post we made is likely to be buried under the deluge of stuff added there every day. Also, to post to r/politics, it would be better to have a news article we could share and then have a lot of us comment on -- which would require some helpful journalist getting something published online for us first.

To give a reddit campaign a chance at success, we would need a ringleader to do the posting, and a lot of VJers would need to create accounts to upvote those posts, add comments, and generate popularity for them.

[En-oh-eh-to now 147]

I am about to file my I-130 and I worked for Obama's campaign as a field organizer in Florida (in a really redneck district where people threatened to kill me, too). I would be more than willing to make a video, and call out the administration for betraying me.

Good! More material for our YouTube channel. Thanks for following our campaign on Twitter!

[MacauPDX 24]

Count me in!

[Blueberry Pancake 311]

There are a ton of good people on there, but soap boxing just won't work. There are too many trolls. Reddit is in large part a platform for sharing interests, funny internet content, etc. Empathy exists and acts of kindness happen but not so much mass political movements. Periodically I do keyword searches on reddit to see if people are discussing things relevant to us (CR-1, I-130, visa, immigration, etc.). There is an r/immigration but it has fewer than 1,000 subscribers. Capturing this audience would need more than a single post; it would take creating a dedicated user account, regularly reading everything on that sub, commenting, and referring to our issue in relevant places. Like this post, for instance: http://www.reddit.com/r/immigration/comments/1oo1ki/what_part_of_legal_immigration_dont_you/. If you read the comments to that post, though, you'll see the kind of attitude we'd be up against with redditors.

You'd probably get a more sympathetic audience on r/longdistance, but those individuals are often teenagers and college students in LDRs, not married people going through immigration processes.

R/politics has the broadest audience (most subscribers) of any of the subs I know would be applicable to us, BUT any post we made is likely to be buried under the deluge of stuff added there every day. Also, to post to r/politics, it would be better to have a news article we could share and then have a lot of us comment on -- which would require some helpful journalist getting something published online for us first.

To give a reddit campaign a chance at success, we would need a ringleader to do the posting, and a lot of VJers would need to create accounts to upvote those posts, add comments, and generate popularity for them.

I see. Makes sense.

I saw there is also r/petitions but not much traffic there..

I guess it'd only work if there was more of us.

I posted the letter on a few other forums. It mostly gets ignored but I got one lifetime ban (), one deleted thread ("not a place for propaganda"), one "I-130 backlog benefited many" comment...

Ugh.

[William S 0]

Thanks for the good work. I have contacted both senators and congressman of my district of this issue.

[En-oh-eh-to now 147]

Okay, our list of video participants has grown to 14 members:

alaskafan, Kaylara, Blueberry Pancake, bobby299, AnnaTaka, Jayr&Kirstine, lucybelle, ShamoLisa, en-oh-eh-to now, thedude6752000, Ana&Sean, Macau PDX, r060106, and londonwalker.

That's pretty good, but we can do better.

[Kaylara 814]

Can we post a condensed version of this letter and upvote it here: http://uscisconnect.ideascale.com/ ?

[dirk_diggler 107]

signed the petition

[En-oh-eh-to now 147]

Can we post a condensed version of this letter and upvote it here: http://uscisconnect.ideascale.com/ ?

A fine idea. Account created. Anyone to provide content?

[YulingZhu 4]

I can help out as well.